It’s easy to feel alone among all these people, isn’t it? Well, maybe not for whoever finds this! But…

We see countless individuals as we go through our journey, yet how often do we breathe a word to them? Or, if we do, how often are they complaints? It’s easy to get wrapped up in ourselves. Easy to forget some adventurers may be striking it out on their own.

Sometimes by choice, sometimes not.

A few kind words, a tiny conversation, can be all it takes to brighten someone’s day, to let them know they have allies to call upon should the need arrive.

So often do we forget there’s more to adventuring than chasing down the next foe. Who knows what possibilities that soul aiding your endeavor to topple the master of some dark place holds? Hidden away in plain sight, a whole community of adventurers who enjoy conversing for its own sake during the downtime, building friendships.

A possible key to opportunities to find that missing something. Or be found. A tiny conversation struck, coaxing someone out. A vast world opened. A ceremony of eternal bonding. It won’t happen for everyone, sad as it is to say. But if you never try, how will you ever know?

And by chance should they depart, aren’t we better for it in the end?

I’ll never stop trying to share that joy, never stop trying to brighten someone’s journey. It’s what they would have wanted, would have done.

Won’t you do the same?

Yours in friendship,
A Weathered Wanderer.

(Scarf of Wondrous Wit)